The Human Touch 2013 - University of Colorado Denver

I Tano’ hu (my island) [Continued]
Until she grew up and left it for good
For places new, and sights unseen
Zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, never stopped
And saw she was getting smaller and smaller and small
And the memories got hazier and hazier with time
Eroding away like the edge of her land
In the new world, too few things to bring her back
To the land where everything is slow and still. •
Keloid
Lynne Yancey, MD
Scar: [skahr] noun: fi brous tissue replacing normal
tissues destroyed by injury or disease
Used to be skin
Made raw again and again
By a thousand little scrapes
A tough insensate shell
Tears roll off and don’t feel hot
Keloid: [kee-loid] noun: hyperplastic scar tissue, tender
and frequently painful, usually after trauma or burns.
Scar gone mad
Overgrown
Deforming
Tears scald and sizzle
Even a light breeze sears the surface
It burns long after the breeze dies
Columbine is my keloid
Aurora is a breeze •
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